There are 52 comments on the
The Morning Call
story from Dec 13, 2008, titled Man charged in fraud is an LVH director Columbia case: Bzdil is....
In it, The Morning Call reports that:

The Lower Macungie man who along with his wife is accused of defrauding Columbia University of more than $200,000 worked at Lehigh Valley Hospital for almost a year until Thursday, when hospital officials ...

<quoted text> Maybe it's your grammar sir. The best way to express yourself is to use the correct spelling. You so called "stupid paper" doesn't want to HEAR what you have to say. Not HERE. Clean it up, get an education and get back to us with any intelligent comments.

I was wondering when the first loony would use this artcile as an excuse to make an out of context comment complaining about LVH. Looks like you win the prize.

You have no idea what you are talking about regarding a "secrecy act".

Irish Proud wrote:

Well gee wizzzz! Good ole' LVH. Community giving, pat me on the back,good nieghbor scumbags!!! Ill go to Sacred heart in a heartbeat. The reason SCH fired the CEO was because she ran it into the grond and then blamed the lower class patients. She tried to get the Board of directors to join LVH. So glad they didnt fall for it.Its ashame docotrs are leaving SHC for LVH. A few do have dignity and are hanging tough or going back to private practice. LVH destroyed the west end of the Valley. When the employees laid off at SCH applied for jobs at LVH they were told that they cannot apply for a job for 2 yrs because of the secrecy act. F*****G Jerks!

They lived the lime-light and now they are going to sit in Jail. I would rather be poor than sit there. Material things really don't mean anything to you when you are older and have to sell it to survive. I could not think of buying all that make-up to make me self look good. My looks are my looks and if 20 dollars a month isn't going to make me look better, then people will have to look at me with the face I was born with.

<quoted text>Here's the rule that applies: The choice of article is actually based upon the phonetic (sound) quality of the first letter in a word, not on the orthographic (written) representation of the letter. If the first letter makes a vowel-type sound, you use "an"; if the first letter would makes a consonant-type sound, you use "a."

Even using the phonetic sounds, I cannot hear AEIOU in the letters LVH. "a" sounds better in my ears. I know my teacher would have marked "an" as wrong.

How would you phonetically "spell" the letter L? Most people would say "el" or "ell".

The other poster was correct, it is generally accepted that the phonetic sound of the acronym is used to guide the use of the appropriate article. One would say "a NASA astronaut..." not "an NASA astronaut...".

You can google "articles with acronyms" or similar and find numerous refences on this topic.

Allentonian wrote:

<quoted text>Even using the phonetic sounds, I cannot hear AEIOU in the letters LVH. "a" sounds better in my ears. I know my teacher would have marked "an" as wrong.

<quoted text>Even using the phonetic sounds, I cannot hear AEIOU in the letters LVH. "a" sounds better in my ears. I know my teacher would have marked "an" as wrong.

"vowel-type sound" is the key. the "L" in LVH makes a vowel-type sound even though it is a consonant. we're splitting hairs, but the "poster" you're responding to is correct and your teacher would have been wrong.

I wonder if she is picking up guys in bars down in South Carolina for the holidays, considering she bailed out on her husband after pilfering through his wallet and going on shopping sprees with out him knowing about it. All that money and she did not even get a boob job? What a bone head move.

How stupid can they be to use a college credit card for things like they did? DO they think there would not be an audit? The woman is ugly, i can see why she needed the cosmetics, however they didn't do her any good. lol

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